Ilgaz
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- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
What was ambassador doing with Hezbollah exclusive pager?
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 7 months ago:
It is all about private “dinners”.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
I really don’t care about people who behave like they are living in North Korea or who wants a North Korean Word to live in.
Even Digg people could say “No, F you” to Digg superstar owners. It is just a damn URL to type.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
I wished they had evil lawyers looking after such stuff and sold strictly opt in data to AI corps. Free for FOSS though.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
Spez like people are even capable of leeching archive.org and still sell the data which was archived for good intentions.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
Liberal market gives end users choice. If they don’t choose, they get the consequences.
This is more like people choosing Trump like types and complaining. Alternative exists, choose it.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 8 months ago:
This is what so called open ai does. It isn’t open even in the sense of open group Unix. I just feel pity for American tax payers as elections are near. Both of these people have significant say in US/World politics.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
Remember even large corporations standardising on truly open protocols can be reversed after whatever the situation leading up to it is resolved.
I just remember Jabber/XMPP federation which included Google. Once Google decided they got big enough, they abandoned it. Of course nothing happened to the protocol itself, it is well and alive both on Fortune 500 and selected as official choice for presence protocol on internet2.edu
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
I don’t like bluesky because I don’t like it’s owner. I don’t like the owner because he thinks everyone is dumb and forgot the fact that nobody pointed a gun on his face to sell Twitter to some Arab dictators.
- Comment on How much power do older mainframes work (if they're actually even run)? 9 months ago:
A lot, just like today’s Mainframe and Super computers. They are calculating complex formulas and doing gigantic batch jobs, millisecond AI fraud detection etc. A regular computer or server will throttle a lot while they are designed to be loaded 100% of times. Dave Plummer of MS recently made a video of a 40TB RAM monster.
Did you ever look at how much today’s top of the line gaming rigs consume? ;-)
- Comment on How much power do older mainframes work (if they're actually even run)? 9 months ago:
If you ever talk with an insurance guy or system admin, you will understand why as/400 can’t be replaced that easily and most of the time people were unhappy with generic stuff replacing it.
Once while the split of IBM was on table, Microsoft was only interested in AS400 line. They used to do a lot of critical things on them. Yes, even Microsoft.
One can emulate AS400 since the entire thing including hardware and OS is a virtual platform from the start. I am not into financial/insurance/travel so I didn’t investigate if IBM offers a POWER or Xeon replacement. You won’t be able to explain throwing away millions of lines working code to move to some current fashion framework/language. These people make their money from 1/1000s of cents.
- Comment on Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer(2016) 9 months ago:
Link gives 404 error. Perhaps change it to archive.org or fix?
- Comment on Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' 9 months ago:
Isn’t aeorogel really expensive to begin with? I mean we have tech like Ytong and they are still using bricks in buildings. Why? Ytong seems expensive to uneducated who have no clue about TCO and engineering.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
The level of hypocrisity at Europe is really beyond limits but the fact that there aren’t insane level rich entities in Europe is really something worth bragging about.
It is not just about jack, what annoys me is people with minimum income thinks there are heroic riches who are acting against the order. That is evil PR in action.
- Comment on Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon 9 months ago:
Actually after noticing the general user profile here, I plan another exodus to some place else.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
I thought this was the network for bright people ;-) They are really thinking to join.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Unfortunate fact: Oppressive regimes and even billionaires in such regimes can basically get all of your SMS. No matter which brand, they will handover your data.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Goof billionaire owner who sold his stuff to evil one. )
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
What we need is something that is a) Private (not saying nc isn’t) b) Independent of any judicial government c) P2P and ultra redundant d) Run by a true non-profit (not like openAI) e) Massively distributed, process wise and storage wise f) OS independent, written in pure C or Rust.
- Comment on Bluesky posts are finally open to the public 10 months ago:
…there are no “good” billionaires. You can’t be a billionaire being a good, decent person. End of the story.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
I remember reddit was constantly advertised by their users as a more “elite” platform and everyone was moving to it at digg 2.0 times. What I seriously started getting curious about is: Did the collective IQ level drop on Reddit, way before the API golden shot? I sometimes share my opinion there and very interesting things happen. They clearly “don’t get it”. The scene of my native language (Turkish) went totally hopeless. Think like Storm Front for Turkish audience. It all happened in 3–4 years, they say, after Bitcoin madness.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
I would absolutely recommend KDE Neon distribution as it comes with current, stable KDE. neon.kde.org . It is a Ubuntu LTS as well.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
It is SteamOS based on Gentoo.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
Chrome sends every single website you visit to Google. You already pay with your privacy.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
Firefox with the right extension can do wonders but for Facebook, it is like trying to save yourself from an atomic bomb with a shield made from led. They hire the best developers out there including OSS people to get your personal data one way or another. The day I learned advertisers abuse html5 canvas using miniscule differences between CPUs, I understood the money and development involved.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
The real dark, unexplainable and one of the most complex software after Google services is Facebook.apk. No baseless privacy claim that Google promises is valid if one installs and runs Facebook as it isn’t in its nature. Anyone, organisation pushes or even requires an application in today’s age is spyware. The Guardian even says “less ads” and they are supposed to be a bit better guys.
- Comment on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. 1 year ago:
I live in a country where reporters are kidnapped, jailed or getting account hacked since all GSM operators gave “root access” to the Strongman 's script kiddies.
While reporters barely “eat” they were even forced to buy blue ticks because of new algorithm. Why? Because the general public didn’t give up the platform.
Musk recently had a closed meeting with the Strongman even bringing his baby and promised some Tesla shit. His SpaceX also carry satellite missions of the regime.
- Comment on Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! 1 year ago:
Downloads doesn’t mean usage. I really hope it happens one day but it isn’t currently the case. We need governments, politicians and media to wake up.
- Comment on Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! 1 year ago:
(citation needed) Seriously there are zero sources, numbers and article ends with a typical interaction bait. As a Turkish person who knows the Turkish shiftdelete I was almost happy that they have an English version for global market but not this tabloid like junk.
- Comment on Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way 1 year ago:
I remember back in 2000s 2 or 3 guys were so misinformed that Bruce Wills himself joined the comments and explained the movie industry doesn’t work that way. Of course they didn’t believe it was him and they ended up being video called by him to “prove” it is really him. I will find that page one day. In the 90s it was common that a famous actor/producer discuss ongoing things with the fans.